Hey folks :)
Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Jarekt
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Jarekt>
- New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Changes_to_P2737_and_P2738>,
Privacy and Living People
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Privacy_and_Living_People>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for
topics to discuss
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Next_IRC_office_hour_on_January_30th>
- Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions>
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>
- Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018>
- Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop
<http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/> (part of The Web Conference) is closing
later this month
- *The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
<https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2017/12/19/the-tom-longboat-awards-as-wikidata/>*
- Mita Williams
- *Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations
<http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/paper/view/496/609>* -
Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
- *There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety,
perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/there-is-no-deadline-so-every-second-is-one-on-anxiety-perfectionism-and-wikimedia-projects/>*
by Léna
- *Up2date software versions for Wikidata
<https://www.schoenitzer.de/blog/2018/Up2date%20softwareversions%20for%20Wikidata.html>
by Michi <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MichaelSchoenitzer>*
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata will be in *read-only mode* on January 9th from 06:00 to
06:30 UTC
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_in_read-only_for_30min_on_January_9th>
- The WikidataCon 2017 report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report>
has been published
- Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia
Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>
have just been published:
- Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions>:
an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons,
and which issues they encounter there
- Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Baseline_Metrics_for_Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia_Commons>:
an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons,
against which the
effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
- You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday> in October 2018
- A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to
collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:FactGrid>
- How would the World look like if countries were as large as their
Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Concepts_Monitor/WDCM_Journal#§_WDCM_Journal,_4._January_2018._The_Twisted_Geography_of_Wikidata>
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/836>]
- New tool: Hub <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: MuBE Virtual ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4721>,
Basketball-Reference.com
WNBA coach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4720>,
Basketball-Reference.com
NBA coach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4718>, Académie
française member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4717>, Académie
des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4716>, Guide to North American
Birds ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4715>, title page
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4714>, Walters Art
Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4713>, Minneapolis
Institute of Art artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4712>, CHGIS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4711>, Guardiana ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4710>, Barnes Foundation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4709>, VOGRIPA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4708>, Rugby Canada ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4707>, Ent'revues ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4706>, World of Spectrum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4705>, Smithsonian American Art
Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4704>
- Query examples:
- Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20events%20starting%20in%202017%20and%20ending%20in%202018%2C%20shortest%20duration%20first%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3FdurationInDays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1656682%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP580%2Fpsv%3AP580%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fstart%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FstartPrecision%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP582%2Fpsv%3AP582%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fend%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FendPrecision%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222017-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fstart%20%26%26%20%3Fstart%20%3C%20%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fend%20%26%26%20%3Fend%20%3C%20%222019-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%20%26%26%20%3FendPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%29%20%23%20precision%2010%20%3D%20month%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%20AS%20%3FdurationInDays%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FdurationInDays%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/947539555187675136>)
- Newest database reports: days of 2018
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Calendar_Dates/lists/days/2018>
Development
- Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
- Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (
phabricator:T163724 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163724>)
- Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for
lexicographical data <http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org>
- Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182424>)
- Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example"
statements (phabricator:T183267
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183267>)
- Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation
dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (
phabricator:T164351 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164351>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
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